One way to look at this is that with one issue, you basically have two
types of candidates: liberal (positive CP) and conservative (negative
CP). Candidates can be "strong" or "weak" liberals (or conservatives)
based on the magnitude of their CP's. Similarly, voters are either
liberal (normali
On May 20, 2004, at 6:03 PM, MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:
Here's a conceptual example that I think better illustrates the problem
that I observed. Suppose you vote in an election in which there are 6
candidates and you have no idea how anyone else votes. Your sincere CR
profile for candidates A ... F is
Bart had said:
... In your 10 candidate, 1 issue trial, are you able to account
for why sincere CR, exaggerated CR, Condorcet, Borda, IRV, and Plurality
all yield exactly the same average across 100,000 elections? It looks
like top-two Runoff is within 0.1% of the same score.
I think it's simply